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Simon Johansson, of Elkton, Maryland
Facts and Events
Information on Simon Johannson
From "The Crane Hook Congregation":
- Simon Johansson, a Finn, arrived in New Sweden as a soldier in 1654 and was stationed at Fort Christina. He settled at Crane Hook in 1663 and was fined 100 guilders in the Long Finn Rebellion. On 4 Sept. 1683, he sold his share of Crane Hook to Hendrick Evertsson and moved with his wife Anna and their children to Sahakitko, where he, Bengt Palsson and Peter Ollesson Slubey became squatters on land claimed by Colonel George Talbot. The three squatters, described as Finns, were each granted 50 acres where they lived, at the Head of the Elk, in exchange for building Talbot a mill on Northeast River. Simon Johnson was naturalized by Maryland on 6 Nov. 1683 and remained at Sahakitko until his death, sometime after 1700, at the alleged age of 80. One of his sons, also named Simon Johnson, born in 1674, was a witness for Lord Baltimore in the 1740 Maryland-Pennsylvania border litigation. Other sons, identified by Holy Trinity records, include Bertil (Bartle) Johnson and John Johnson. A daughter Margareta was married before 1693 to Bengt Palsson.
- [Source: http://www.nc-chap.org/cranehook/pdfs/cranehook1693c.pdf]
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